Wonderful New Resource

"The Cross did not happen to Jesus:
He came on purpose for it."
Oswald Chambers

The academy library has some new items this week, plus a wonderful new DVD (plus CD and workbook) series on apologetics by Ravi Zacharias Ministries. Look for these items on the "New Items" shelf by the newspaper rack, and the top shelf of the "Subject Videos" section in the library.


New Non-fiction Books
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
Now What? God's Guide to Life for Graduates by John Ortberg
Odysseia=Odyssey by Homer [Korean edition]
Iberia: Spanish Travels and Reflections by James Michener
Sajin kwa kurim uro ponun Miguksa=Story of America by Weinstein [Korean edition]

New Fiction Books
The Robe by Lloyd Douglas
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones

New Video and DVD
The Life, Times and Wonders of Athens and Ancient Greece [video]
Peace Child [DVD]

Apologetics Series
12 DVDs (60 minutes each), 12 CDs, 12 workbooks
Vol. 1 Conversations That Count with Michael Ramsden
Vol. 2 Truth and Reality with Stuart McAllister
Vol. 3 The Existence of God with Alister McGrath
Vol. 4 Establishing a Worldview with Ravi Zacharias
Vol. 5 The Trustworthiness of Christian Scriptures with Amy Orr-Ewing
Vol. 6 The Uniqueness of Christ with Joe Boot
Vol. 7 The Trinity and Apologetics with L.T. Jeyachandran
Vol. 8 Pluralism: Do All Religions Lead to the Same Goal? with John Lennox
Vol. 9 Faith, Reason, and Integration with John Lennox
Vol.10 God, Evil and Suffering with Ravi Zacharias
Vol.11 Seeing & Exploring Cultural Connections with Stuart McAllister
Vol.12 Reasoning From the Scriptures with Michael Ramsden

Oswald Chambers in the Academy Library

During March we focus on the life and works of Oswald Chambers, and every day start the morning with a quote from this famous Scottish pastor, teacher and chaplain during World War I to British troops stationed in Egypt. He died tragically at a young age while in Egypt, but his wife, Biddy, took notes of his sermons and published many of his teachings after his death. Her most famous compilation was the daily devotional My Utmost For His Highest. The library has this devotional, a biography of his life by D.W. Lambert, as well as his complete works in one volume with an accompanying CD. Here are a few quotes from Oswald Chambers that have inspired and comforted this month:

"Where is the love of God in war? In suffering? In all the inevitable inequalities of life? No one who faces facts as they are could ever prove that God is love unless he accepts the revelation of his love made by Jesus Christ." The Place of Help

"We do not worship an austere, remote God. He is here in the thick of it." Biblical Ethics

"If Jesus Christ is a teacher only, then all he can do is to tantalize me by erecting a standard I cannot attain. . . Jesus Christ did not come to teach only; he came to make me what he teaches I should be." My Utmost For His Highest

"The things that make God dear to us are not so much his great big blessings as the tiny things, because they show us his amazing intimacy with us; he knows every detail of our individual lives." My Utmost For His Highest

"The Cross is not the cross of a martyr: it is the mirror of the nature of God focused in one point of history. If I want to know what God is like, I see it in the Cross." Biblical Ethics

New Items in the Library

CD
Brundibar: an Opera for Children by Hans Krasa [children of the Holocaust in Terezin]

DVDs--junior level
The Human Machine
States of matter
The Magic School Bus Space Adventures
American Legends
Everyday Life in the Renaissance
Life in the Middle Ages
Ancient Greece

Books
The Dominican Republic and Haiti (Insight Travel Guide)
The Cat With the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin [concentration camp] by Susan Goldman Rubin

New in the Academy Library This Week

DVDs
Joseph [Turner Bible Collection]
Newsies [Walt Disney Musical]

Junior Fiction
Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff
The Secret Soldier: the Story of Deborah Sampson by Ann McGovern

Non-Fiction
Please Lord, Send Me by Perry Priest [Wycliffe Bible Translator to Bolivia and Nigeria]
Brundibar by Tony Kushner [picture book about the Czech opera Holocaust children performed]
Deborah Sampson Goes to War by Bryna Stevens

Saint Patrick and Ireland Resources

" I bind unto myself the power of God to hold and lead,
His eye to watch, his might to stay, His ear to harken to my need."
Saint Patrick

Books
The Life of Saint Patrick and His Place in History by John Bury
Patrick: Patron Saint of Ireland by Tomie DePaola (picture book)
Who Was Saint Patrick? by E.A. Thompson
The Story of Saint Patrick: More Than Shamrocks and Leprechauns by Cheryl Odden
Baedecker's Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The Irish People: an Illustrated History
The Water is Wide: a Novel of Northern Ireland by Elizabeth Gibson (former professor at Houghton College)
Emerald Isle Series (five novels) by B. J. Hoff
The Throne of Tara by John Desjarlais
The Treasure of Kilvarra by Elizabeth Hazelton
The Book of Kells
Giant, or Waiting for Thursday's Boat by Robert Munsch (picture book about Saint Patrick)

Video
Saint Patrick: the Man and the Myth

DVD
Patrick
The Irish Tenors